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KOROR (PICRC) — Ngaraard and Ngeremlengui Elementary Schools had the highest number of winners of the 2021 Arts and Tides Calendar Contest, with 10 students from each school. Ngaraard had the highest percentage of participation with 79% of students submitting artwork. Ngeremlengui had 36% of students submit artwork.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Wednesday she could lift all social distancing measures to return the country to normal life, bar the international border closure, as early as next week.

COLONIA, Yap (Yap State Government) — Due to the expiration of the second Declaration of a State of Emergency decree on May 27, 2020, Yap State Gov. Henry S. Falan issued a third Emergency Declaration on June 1, 2020 that is retroactive to May 28 and continues to place the entire state under a state of public health emergency in connection with the Covid-19 pandemic.

LONDON (Reuters) — Britain’s quarantine for travelers arriving from abroad, which will be introduced from June 8, is crucial to avoiding a second wave of the coronavirus outbreak in the country, Interior Minister Priti Patel and Transport Minister Grant Shapps said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The European Union on Tuesday rejected any suggestion that the Group of Seven advanced economies could be expanded to include Russia and warned Washington that it could not change the rules for the group on its own.

MANILA (AP) — The Philippine president has suspended his decision to terminate a key defense pact with the United States, at least temporarily avoiding a major blow to one of America’s oldest alliances in Asia.